Thursday, September 09, 2010

Some months ago I stumbled upon a really fun DIY with your kids blog post. While I have no kids, I still thought of saving that post and perhaps even try it myself one day (with or without kids...). Time passed and I completely forgot about it, until about a couple of months ago when I was going through my never ending "bookmarked web links" and I found it again. This time I left that page open and started working on it. At first I had to save every empty toilet paper roll. My someone thought I was crazy. His mom actually got interested (as I didn't tell anyone what was I going to do with all those TP rolls), and a few weeks ago my someone came home from his parents' with a bag full of empty TP rolls. Now I was ready to start.

Then I took that entire pile of rolls, folded them, and cut them into thin strips

Next step was to create flower like shapes that connect to each other

Now that I had a general design, it was time to glue each flower. Every 5 petals were glued together to form a flower. I used cloths pins to hold them together while the glue dried

I decided to paint some of the flowers light blue (using the left-over paint from our blue line project), and then leave the rest of the flowers in their natural look

Now that the flowers were all glued and painted, all that was left to do was to glue the flowers to each other and create a flowing connected design

My someone and I decided to hang it on the wall next to our TV. As always, my someone was in charge of the hammer while I was in charge of the photo taking...

76 comments:

tali, i am totally speechless. i love all of your DIY projects and this one blows me away! i love how you manage to always do it in style, keeping everything rather elegant and simple and not looking too "crafty." this is so awesome, i love the way it looks on your wall! wouldn't it be cool to keep adding more and more over time until eventually you have an entire wall of flowers?! that might be overkill... but the texture of an entire wall like that would be so cool!anyway, you never fail to impress me :)

this is beautiful! i can't over how you took something random like a toilet paper roll and made it into something so pretty :) i would love to try it someday but my bunny gets dibs on all the toilet paper rolls my house produces... maybe she'll be nice enough to share...

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Hi...I tried this too. Then I lined the toilet rolls with some scrap wall paper and some different wall paper on the outside. painted the edges black. Got a bit messy but I can tell that if I take my time, it would look good. Especially if one wanted to match some wallpaper in a room, but say on a painted wall or canvas. My example/test is here: http://pinterest.com/pin/196328864975521186/

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This turned out great! I used your post as an inspiration for my own toilet paper roll art, detailed here: http://destinationdecoration.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/toilet-paper-roll-art/I put a link to your post in mine because I loved how yours turned out.

A designer once shared...you can use sewing straight pins to hang up to 15 lbs. They leave no visible holes in the walls. I had an entire wall of picture frames done this way. Up for years...no falling frames, no holes!